In Re Ronco Inc Appeal of Levit & Mason Ltd’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Salgado ex rel. Salgado v. General Motors Corp. (1998), AHP Subsidiary Holding Co. v. Stuart Hale Co. (1993)
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Lawrence v. United States · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[r]eview under the abuse of discretion standard does not mean no appellate review.' ... Deferential review will not prevent this court from ensuring that district judges reflect seriously, and consider fully, before imposing (or denying) sanctions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can be just as misleading, sometimes more misleading, than an absolutely false representation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court’s task is to examine the complaint and to determine whether the plaintiffs' claims objectively reflect a reasonable pre-filing inquiry into the facts and law. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 11. In making this inquiry, we must remember that "the party against whom sanctions would be imposed must actually make the reasonable argument, not merely assert after-the-fact that a reasonable argument could have been made.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.